Condensed Matter

The focus of this episode is Jonathan Schaffer’s “The ground between the gaps”, published in Philosophers’ Imprint in 2017.

Link to the paper: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/phimp/3521354.0017.011/--ground-between-the-gaps?view=image

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The focus of this episode is Ruth Groff’s article: “Conceptualizing causal powers: activity, capacity, essence, necessitation”. Published in Synthese in 2021 as part of the topical collection “New Foundations of Dispositionalism,” edited by Andrea Raimondi and Lorenzo Azzano.

Link to the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03229-x

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The focus of this episode is Justin Garson’s article "There Are No Ahistorical Theories of Function" published in Philosophy of Science in 2019. 
 
 Link: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/705472 

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The focus of this episode is Otávio Bueno and Scott Shalkowski’s article: Troubles with Theoretical Virtues: Resisting Theoretical Utility Arguments in Metaphysics, published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in 2019.
 
 Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phpr.12597

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The focus of this episode is David Lewis’s "Ramseyan Humility" published In David Braddon-Mitchell & Robert Nola’s (eds.), Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. MIT Press. 2009.

Link: https://philpapers.org/rec/LEWRH 

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This episode a two for one: I’ll be discussing an exchange between Alexander Bird and Barbara Vetter that takes the form of two articles, one by each author, published in the proceedings of the Aristotelian Society in 2018.
 
 Bird: https://academic.oup.com/aristoteliansupp/article-abstract/92/1/247/5032734
Vetter: https://academic.oup.com/aristoteliansupp/article-abstract/92/1/277/5032735

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The focus of this episode is Alisa Bokulich’s article "How scientific models can explain", published in Synthese in 2011.
 
 Link to the article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-009-9565-1

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Welcome to Condensed Matter, condensing recent work in metaphysics and the philosophy of science down to what matters.

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